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Facebook Markup Language (FBML) enabled one to build Facebook applications that deeply integrate into a user's Facebook experience. Deprecated as of June 6, 2012. Not to be confused with xfbml.

Facebook Markup Language (FBML) is a way to tell servers how to interpret certain content and convert this markup to . It is an evolved subset of HTML from which Facebook has removed some elements, and added others which are specific to Facebook.

Deprecation

Facebook has decided to move away from FBML and towards IFrames while keeping a small subset of FBML available for social plugins and the JS SDK. As of June 6 2012, FBML will no longer function on applications.

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Loading Facebook fb:profile-pic via AJAX in Facebook Connect site

After a page loads, I'm making an AJAX request to pull down an HTML chunk that contains tags representing a Facebook user profile picture. I append the result to a point in the DOM but the logos don't load, instead all I see is the default…
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Best IDE for Facebook apps (FMBL and FBJS support)

I have a reasonable workflow for developing an iFrame app for Facebook. It's reasonable because I can test the app on localhost with a local Apache in any one of a myriad of IDEs that support HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Visual Web Developer,…
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facebook iframe App: Send/Like button z-index issue

We are having a problem with our facebook like/send button, if you open: http://apps.facebook.com/bymii-test/products.php?pageid=216605071714962&prd_id=35&prd_name=Coalesce: - click facebook send, the box is behind the facebook sidebar. Is there any…
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facebook fbml login-button not working with perms

I recently ran into a problem when I upgraded to the new php and js sdk before the login button below worked fine, and the dialog box popped up for a user to grant permission.
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FBML + FBJS == XFBML?

I am trying to understand what exactly is the difference between fbml and xfbml! Is XFBML same as FBML combined with java script?
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How to Determine if Facebook User 'Likes' a Certain Page

Is there any way to determine if a Facebook user 'likes' a certain page with the API Facebook offers currently? UPDATE I have been trying to get this to work via the PHP graph API for a while now with this code. $fbconfig['appid'] =…
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How to do any type of info sharing from within a Facebook tab?

Firstly apologies for the length of this question, and for asking about the Facebook API (seemingly one of the most inconsistent API's in the world...). The Situation: We're producing an Facebook product 'community' - type page for our client,…
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Facebook: Invalid mark up on FBML

I am using the W3C XHTML validator to check my sites and I am getting some errors on pages with FBML. Most of the cause of such errors is the "&" character. Since FBML values and attributes are generated on the fly, I have no way to encode the…
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Facebook: force user to login / install application with FBML

I am new to Facebooks applications, so forgive me if I got something wrong. How do I prompt users to install my application when they visit my application's canvas page?
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OpenGraph - Setting expiry?

So, on facebook, the ticker shows recent stories from views to my site, now, what would i need to do to make the ticker display the fact that someone is 'viewing' a post. Anything i try just ends up saying 'viewed' a post. Is there a way to make it…
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How do I change the DBML (facebook) preferred language?

I want to overwrite FB preferred language; as an example: public static string ScriptUrl { get { string name = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name; switch…
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Can Facebook's fb:comments notify me when a new comment is posted?

I'm using fb:comments as described here. Comments work fine but I can't find a way to be notified when a new comment is added. Is there a way to easily find new comments (without visiting my 3000 articles each time)? I know FB did some changes to…
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Facebook Connect No Longer Firing Callback (As of today)

Came into the office today to do some more work on my nearly completed Facebook Connect website application. And i have discovered for some reason, the "onlogin" event of the fb:login button FBML control is no longer getting fired!!?! To anyone else…
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Getting FBML Error unknown tag "fb:like" error with Facebook app

I've been looking at this for ages now and I cant find anything on the net that provides a solution. When trying to use the tag... ...this is embedded on a tab canvas. The 'Like' button appears when using the app locally, however, it doesn't…
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Converted JavaScript to FBJS - tabs still not working

I tried my best to convert JavaScript to FBJS according to this page: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/FBJS. Yet my tabs are still not working properly. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this so I can click through the tabs…
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